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Latina Trans Woman Andrea Doria Dos Passos, 37, Violently Murdered While Sleeping on Miami Sidewalk
The Crime
Content Note: violence, transgender person, homelessness, mental illness. Please note that the description of the murder is graphic and vicious.
Andrea Doria Dos Passos was a 37 year old Latina trans woman. She was homeless, sleeping outside the Miami City Ballet building in Miami Beach on April 22, 2024 when she was brutally murdered.
Around 6:46 AM, a worker at te ballet found Passos’ body with massive trauma to her face and head. She was lying in a pool of blood, with lacerations on her face and two sticks jammed violently into her nostrils. An examination later found a puncture wound in Dos Passos’ chest them reports.
Video footage caught a man approaching the sleeping woman and allegedly then began beating Dos Passos with a metal pipe, dumping the pipe in a nearby trash can afterward. Some reports indicate he moved her body after the assault and then fled.
Gregory Fitzgerald Gibert, 53, was arrested later that day, charged with second degree murder, and is being held without bail in a local jail.
Police have already dismissed that this was a hate crime. I’m not sure how that can be ruled out in two days with s such a vicious…
